This is a randomized controlled prospective study which assigned patient to receive manual CPR or automatic CPR machine use. The quality and efficacy between manual CPR and machine CPR will be evaluated.

Patients sent to National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) through Jhongsiao Emergency medical service (EMS) team

Exclusion Criteria:

Younger than 15 years old

Traumatic cardia arrest

Patients not sent to NTUH by Jhongsiao EMS team

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00308815